Sonia Davis

BA (Hons) Textiles


The inspiration for my final collection began with my fascination for the smaller and often over looked details in the world around us. The book ‘Patternity – A New Way of Seeing’ by Anna Murray & Grace Winteringham expresses the importance of pattern within our lives, becoming more aware of our surroundings and finding magnificence in the mundane. It is a perfect example of how we should begin to look closer at the details that surround us. There is an array of life, patterns and textures beyond the edge of sight – virtually invisible to the naked eye. Only when we look at these structures and forms closer under a microscope, do we realise how even more fascinating life really is – providing endless inspiring material to work from.

My final womenswear fabric collection, designed for Spring/Summer 2019, focuses around the theme of cellular nature, looking at microscopic structures and forms. By looking at these cells and organic structures underneath a microscope, I explored this theme in a more abstract approach – focusing on shape, line and colour.


Dechreuodd yr ysbrydoliaeth ar gyfer fy nghasgliad olaf am fod y manylion llai sy’n aml yn cael eu hanwybyddu yn y byd o’n cwmpas wedi fy swyno. Mae’r llyfr ‘Patternity – A New Way of Seeing’ gan Anna Murray a Grace Winteringham yn mynegi mor bwysig yw patrwm yn ein bywydau, dod yn fwy ymwybodol o’n hamgylchoedd a chanfod bod y cyffredin yn gallu bod yn odidog. Mae’n enghraifft berffaith o’r ffordd y dylem ddechrau edrych ar y manylion sydd o’n cwmpas. Mae casgliad o fywyd, patrymau a gweadedd sydd y tu hwnt i derfynau’n golwg – sydd bron â bod yn anweladwy i’r llygad noeth. Ond pan edrychwn ar y strwythurau a’r ffurfiau hyn yn agosach o dan y microsgop y byddwn yn sylweddoli bod bywyd hyd yn oed yn fwy cyfareddol – gan roi deunydd ysbrydoledig di-ben-draw yn ddeunydd i’w weithio.

Mae fy nghasgliad olaf o ffabrigau dillad menywod, a ddyluniwyd ar gyfer Gwanwyn/Haf 2019, yn canolbwyntio ar thema natur gellog, gan edrych ar ffurfiau a strwythurau microsgopig. Drwy edrych ar y celloedd hyn ac ar strwythurau organig o dan ficrosgop, fe wnes i archwilio’r thema hon mewn ffordd fwy haniaethol gan ganolbwyntio ar siâp, llinell a lliw.

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